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AkerBP, IKM agree to mud recovery services

Nov 14, 2016

IKM Cleandrill has been awarded a three-year frame agreement with AkerBP for riserless closed loop mud recovery services. The initial operations under this contract will be production well drilling on the Alvheim development from the Transocean Arctic semisubmersible rig…

Trendsetter, Add Energy develop RWIS

Sep 28, 2016

Trendsetter Engineering and Add Energy have teamed up to develop the Relief Well Injection Spool (RWIS), designed to enable pumping of up to 200 bbl per minute of kill mud through a single relief well utilizing multiple vessels as opposed to the conventional method of multiple relief wells…

Cubility releases CubeLink for waste transportation

Sep 02, 2016

Cubility, a provider of solids control solutions, has launched CubeLink, a technology that aims to improve the transportation of drilling waste.  CubeLink transports drilling waste directly from shale shakers or Cubility’s own MudCube…

Castex to install platform jacket at Hummer

Jan 20, 2016

Castex Energy is set to fabricate and install a platform jacket over the Main Pass Block 270 #3 BP 1 well on its Hummer exploration prospect, in the Gulf of Mexico, according to partner Petsec Energy. The well is located about 50mi southeast of Venice…

Total fined for 2012 Elgin leak

Dec 22, 2015

Total's UK subsidiary (Total E&P UK Ltd) has been fined a record £1.125 million (US$1.67 million) after it admitted failures that led to largest release of gas on record from the Elgin offshore platform in 2012. The fine was passed down by the Sheriff Court in Aberdeen…

1 dead in GoM accident

Oct 20, 2015

An accident onboard the drillship Pacific Santa Ana has left one worker dead. The news was confirmed by the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), operator Chevron, and the drillship's owner, Pacific Drilling. The Pacific…

Claxton develops SWAT extension module

Oct 07, 2015

Claxton developed an extension module for its suspended well abandonment tool (SWAT), enabling Claxton and Acteon sister company, Offshore Installation Services Ltd. (OIS), to set deeper environmental and intermediate barriers. The existing…

Living in a material world

Oct 01, 2015

Nanotechnology is a wide and growing field being researched and developed by both academia and industry alike. Elia Barnett spoke with researchers at University of Houston, Rice University, and Halliburton to see how far the technology has come…

Designer mud

Sep 01, 2015

Designer mud is helping Total tap pressure depleted HPHT reservoirs in the UK North Sea. Elaine Maslin takes a look. The West Franklin well head platform installation last year.  Photos from Total…

Drilling with liner goes deep

Sep 01, 2015

Weatherford’s Steve Rosenberg and Ming Zo Tan demonstrate how drilling-with-liner technology isolated a depleted sand section in deepwater Gulf of Mexico well in one trip. The Weatherford Defyer…

Cubility gets Johan Sverdrup deal

Jun 12, 2015

Statoil awarded Cubility a US multi million dollar deal to provide the MudCube solution for installation on the Johan Sverdrup field in the North Sea. The MudCube. From Cubility. The MudCube…

OTC15: Enteq introduces twin electro-magnetic telemetry system

May 04, 2015

Enteq Upstream introduced the new Twin Electro-Magnetic Telemetry Systemfor high-speed electromagnetic (EM) MWD telemetry, as an alternative or supplement to mud pulse telemetry to transmit drilling data. The system enables the use of mud pulse and EM telemetry concurrently…

LR Senergy IP software update

Feb 27, 2015

LR Senergy has updated its formation evaluation and well data interpretation tool, IP v4.3, featuring enhancements to key workflows plus advanced and new technologies that make IP v4.3 a well data interpretation package for multi-user…

HAL introduces new XBAT size

Feb 04, 2015

Sperry Drilling, a Halliburton (HAL) business line, has introduced a 4-3/4 inch slimhole size to its XBAT LWD service. HAL’s portfolio now includes 4-3/4, 6-3/4, 8 and 9-1/2 inch tools, which allows the XBAT tool to service wellbore holes ranging from 5-3/4 to 36 inches…

Influx detection

Feb 01, 2015

James Onifade discusses how the first managed pressure drilling operation for an African operator accurately detected and circulated a small influx out of the well, without having to shut it in or threatening the safety of the rig crew. The…

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